• 6/10/2007
  • Little Rock, AK
  • staff
  • TodaysTHVH.com

State health officials hope to keep Arkansas kids from using spit tobacco.

They set up shop at Dickey-Stephens Park in North Little Rock Friday for the 6th annual Spit Tobacco Prevention Night. Kids signed a pledge never to use spit tobacco http://homepage.westmont.edu/make_account/images/pic/photoshop-cs5.html. Some won prizes like Ipods and DVD players.

The slogan for the prevention campaign is chew, dip and die.

“It causes mouth cancer and throat cancer. You lose your teeth. It causes gum disease. Think about what’s in spit tobacco, cyanide, arsenic, formaldehyde, things that you wouldn’t put in your mouth,” said Dr. Lynn Mouden with the Department of Health and Human Services.

Minor league baseball prohibits the use of spit tobacco or smoking.